NEUROLALA
Donna Akrey and Sandra Meigs met in Hamilton in 2018 and shared visits to each other’s studios. They quickly became art buddies.
Donna Akrey is a Hamilton-based visual artist and teacher, who creates public and
participatory art works. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to articulate ideas to
create large installations and sculptural objects, single channel video, video installation, performance, and book works. Donna received a BFA from Concordia University, MFA from NSCAD, and teaches at Brock and McMaster University in the visual art department. She is a member of the artist collectives Hamilton Perambulatory Unit and (F)NOR art collectives.
Sandra Meigs creates vivid, immersive, and enigmatic paintings that combine complex narratives with comic elements. She derives the content of her work from her own personal experiences and develops these to create visual metaphors related to the psyche.
She is Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria, where she taught painting for 25 years. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and many other museums. In 2015 she received the Governor General’s Award in Arts and Media which included a $50,000 award. In 2015 she also received the Gershon Iskowitz Award at the AGO which included a $50,000 prize and a solo exhibition at the AGO.
Sandra moved to Hamilton in 2017, after she retired from teaching in Victoria.